Vienna Museum

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Vienna Museum
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Main building of the Vienna Museums on Karlsplatz (2017)
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place Vienna coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 56 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 23 ″  EWorld icon
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opening 1887
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Matti Bunzl (since 2015)
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The Wien Museum, actually Museums of the City of Vienna, is a scientific institution under public law with its own legal personality and seat in Vienna , under which several museums of the city are combined into a museum group. In addition to the main building on Karlsplatz , which opened as a new museum building on April 23, 1959 and closed for a major expansion on the evening of February 3, 2019, and the Hermesvilla , a former imperial palace, there are numerous branch offices in the form of special museums, musicians' apartments and excavation sites .

The permanent art collection and the historical collection on the history of Vienna have exhibits from the Neolithic to the mid-20th century. The focus is on the 19th century, for example with works by Gustav Klimt . In addition, the Wien Museum organizes various special exhibitions.

History, sponsorship

Municipal collections

Study by Otto Wagner on the design of Karlsplatz, left the Kaiser Franz Joseph City Museum (around 1900)

The Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, founded in 1887, and the Municipal Weapons Museum have been listed under these names in Lehmann's general housing market since 1888 . Until 2002, the later museums of the City of Vienna were part of the City Council of Vienna , which has had its headquarters in the then New City Hall since 1883 . The municipal collections (archive, library, museums) were also housed there under joint management, and the showrooms on the 1st floor, the representative floor. In 1889, today's Vienna City and State Archives were separated from the other municipal collections, and in 1939 the Vienna Library in the City Hall was also separated .

From 1939 the municipal collections formed a department of the municipal administration of the Reichsgau Vienna . In addition to the historical museum and the weapons collection in the New Town Hall, a Roman museum was operated on the 4th, Rainergasse 18, and a municipal wine museum on the Klosterneuburg main square (26th district) . At the former residence of the painter Rudolf von Alt , 8., Skodagasse 11, there was an old memorial. At that time, the local museums of Meidling , Ottakring , Hernals , Floridsdorf and Mödling (until 1954, 24th district) and the Klosterneuburg local museum were also part of the municipal collections.

Museums of the City of Vienna

After 1945 the city museums were known for decades as MA 10 (Magistratsabteilung 10) . You were responsible for the Culture Business Group, which is headed by an incumbent city council. Robert Waissenberger (born August 16, 1926) ran the house from 1974 , after his death on March 28, 1987, until the end of March 2003, his former colleague Günter Düriegl (born November 9, 1940).

Outsourcing from the city administration

In 1998 and 2002, the Federal Museum Act 2002, as amended, created the possibility for the federal museums to formally outsource their operations from state property to independent legal entities, known as scientific institutions . This should facilitate the management of the museum, which is more oriented towards private management. In 1999 and 2000 the first large state museums with full legal capacity were outsourced.

The State of Vienna adopted this model in 2001 in the Vienna Museum Act (Wr. MuG) .

The MA 10 - Museums of the City of Vienna was recognized on the basis of this law in 2002 as having full legal capacity, i.e. H. unrestrictedly constituted a separate legal entity under public law called the Museums of the City of Vienna (§ 3 Wr. MuG). The holdings of the collections acquired up to that point were not transferred to the establishment's ownership, but rather entrusted as a loan (Section 8 Wr. MuG) . The museum regulations were to be issued by the Viennese provincial government as an ordinance, the director (managing director) was to be appointed by the provincial government on the proposal of the City Council for Culture. An eight-member board of trustees appointed by the state government acts as the supervisory board. The institution is also subject to supervision by the state government and control by the city ​​audit office , until 2013 designated as the control office of the City of Vienna.

Since Wolfgang Kos was appointed director in 2003, the institution has been publicly known as the Wien Museum . Matti Bunzl has been director since 2015.

Directors

Vienna Museum Karlsplatz

description

Showroom with exhibits from St. Stephen's Cathedral (picture windows from the 14th century and original stone sculptures from the 15th century) in the Museum Karlsplatz

The Historical Museum of the City of Vienna has existed since 1887 and was housed in the Vienna City Hall until 1959 . The first plans for a Vienna City Museum on Karlsplatz were drawn up at the beginning of the 20th century: Otto Wagner has a particularly attractive project. However, the realization of the museum building was postponed for decades - mainly because of the two world wars .

In 1953, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Federal President and former Mayor of Vienna Theodor Körner , the Vienna City Council decided to build the museum in his honor. A competition was announced to which thirteen architects were invited by name (for example Clemens Holzmeister , Erich Boltenstern and Karl Schwanzer ), but which was also open. The designs were judged by a jury consisting of the chairman Franz Schuster , the architects Max Fellerer and Roland Rainer , the urban planning director of Vienna, the director of the municipal collections Franz Glück , the head of the urban regulation department and the head of the architecture department.

A total of 96 designs were submitted from the 80 participants; Oswald Haerdtl was awarded fourth place by the jury. Haerdtl was then commissioned "freehand" and implemented the building in the cautiously modern style of the time. Haerdtl also designed the interior furnishings up to the furnishing of the director's room. The foundation stone was laid on October 2, 1954. On April 23, 1959, the museum on Karlsplatz was opened as the first and, for decades, only new museum building of the Second Republic .

The Historical Museum of the City of Vienna has repeatedly presented special exhibitions. Under the direction of Robert Waissenberger, the house hosted the Art Nouveau exhibition “Dream and Reality” in 1985 in the Künstlerhaus Vienna across from Karlsplatz . With over 600,000 visitors, it was one of the most successful exhibitions ever held in Vienna.

In 2000 the inner courtyard was roofed over. In 2003, when the museums of the City of Vienna were merged under the direction of Wolfgang Kos to form the new umbrella brand “Wien Museum”, the name was changed to “Wien Museum Karlsplatz”. At the beginning of 2006, the foyer was redesigned and new exhibition areas were cleared in the area of ​​a former depot.

Presented as a mixture of historical collection and art collection, the visitor should be given a cross-section of the development of Vienna, from the Neolithic beginnings to the Roman legionary camp Vindobona up to the 20th century. In addition to the permanent exhibition, special exhibitions are regularly shown.

Conversion or expansion

In May 2017, exploratory work began on the renovation of the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz. The load-bearing capacity of the floor, foundations and walls was examined before the planned overbuilding or heightening of the building - the winning project of the architectural team Winkler + Ruck and Ferdinand Certov - began. The cost of renovating the museum is expected to total 108 million euros. In spring 2018 the city administration decided not to cover the construction costs through a public-private partnership , but to finance them directly from the city budget. On the evening of February 3, 2019, the Wien Museum was closed for around three years due to the renovation. An “alternative operation” is planned for this time, such as mobile exhibitions for elementary schools. From the current perspective, the new opening is planned for 2023. During the closing time, the special exhibitions in the Wien Museum MUSA are shown next to the town hall.

Vienna Museum Hermesvilla

Hermes Villa

Since 1971 exhibitions have been shown in the Hermesvilla, a castle in the Lainzer Tiergarten in the west of Vienna, which Emperor Franz Joseph had built for his wife Empress Elisabeth from 1882 to 1886. The building was revitalized in the 1970s by the Association of Friends of the Hermes Villa under former mayor Bruno Marek and later taken over by the City of Vienna. The permanent exhibition is dedicated to the history of the building and the imperial couple who stayed there a few days a year until Elisabeth's death. In addition, special exhibitions on a wide variety of cultural-historical topics are shown.

Specialty museums

Otto Wagner Pavilion Karlsplatz

Otto Wagner Pavilion on Karlsplatz

In the former station building of the Vienna light rail designed by Otto Wagner , a permanent exhibition on the life and work of Wagner has been shown since 2005.

In the course of the construction of the light rail in the 1890s, for which the architect Otto Wagner received the design commission, this Art Nouveau pavilion was built in 1898 , which has a twin pavilion opposite. When the planning for the new Karlsplatz subway junction was progressing in the 1960s, demolition was barely prevented. The pavilions were dismantled, restored and re-erected as pure design monuments in 1977 after the end of the work on the redesign of Karlsplatz . In the western of the two pavilions, which is used by the Wien Museum, there is an exit to the underground station at the rear, the eastern one is used by a coffee house.

Otto Wagner court pavilion Hietzing

Otto Wagner court pavilion in Hietzing

The pavilion of the kuk Allerhöchsten Hof near Schönbrunn Palace in Hietzing was built in 1899 based on a design by Otto Wagner and served the emperor and the members of the court as an entry and exit point when they traveled by light rail. This pavilion was not included in the original urban railway planning, but Otto Wagner initiated the construction at his own risk and was ultimately able to convince Railway Minister Heinrich von Wittek . In contrast to the other light rail stations, this pavilion with a dome has baroque style elements, which can be interpreted as a declaration of respect by the architect Wagner for the emperor. The pavilion was built on the platform end on the city center side of the Hietzing tram station opened in 1898 ; Stairways (later removed) from the pavilion led to these public platforms. However, only two cases of use of the building by Franz Joseph I (whose initials FJI are attached) are known: in 1899 when the lower Wiental line of the Stadtbahn (Meidling Hauptstrasse – Hauptzollamt) opened and again in April 1902.

Today the imperial waiting salon, the emperor's work cabinet and other rooms are shown as permanent exhibitions in the pavilion. From 2010 the pavilion was closed due to dilapidation; There was disagreement between Wiener Linien as the owner and the Wien Museum as the user about who pays the renovation costs . From 2012 to 2014 the pavilion was restored on behalf of the City of Vienna based on the original design by Otto Wagner. Since it opened on June 21, 2014, it has again been open to the public as a branch of the Wien Museum.

Prater Museum

Prater Museum

The Pratermuseum is located in the Prater , in the same building as the planetarium , which is located between the ferris wheel and the main avenue . With exhibits such as an old fortune telling machine and showpieces from ghost trains and curiosity shows, it offers an insight into the history of Vienna's largest amusement park, the Wurstelprater . The local researcher Hans Pemmer founded the museum in his apartment in 1933 and donated the collection to the City of Vienna in 1964, the year the planetarium was opened. The museum also has exhibits from the holdings of the Wien Museum, the Adanos collection and Ernst Hrabalek's Laterna Magica collection.

Watch museum

Entrance to the clock museum in the Palais Obizzi

The clock museum housed in the Palais Obizzi in downtown Vienna is one of the most important of its kind in Europe. The museum was founded in 1917 with the clock collections of the first and long-time director Rudolf Kaftan and the poet Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach . During the Second World War, the "House of ten thousand clocks", as it was also called, was closed, and attempts were made to bring the valuable clocks to safety in various castles in Lower Austria, which only partially succeeded. After the end of the war, reconstruction work began in the museum. Thanks to grants from the City of Vienna and private donations, the collection was enriched with a few rare pieces.

Fashion Collection Public Library

In Schloss Hetzendorf in Meidling , in addition to the Vienna Fashion School in Schloss Hetzendorf, there is also the fashion collection of the Wien Museum, which is not open to the public. The attached library, on the other hand, is open to visitors and consists of more than 12,000 volumes and numerous journals, photos and around 3,000 copperplate engravings on the subject of fashion.

Musicians' apartments

Mozarthaus Vienna in Domgasse

Numerous apartments, as well as the houses of birth and death of well-known composers, are largely in their original state and are intended to give visitors an insight into the life and everyday life of the artists. The exhibits include their sheet music, but also everyday objects.

Mozart's apartment

The apartment on Domgasse in the immediate vicinity of St. Stephen's Cathedral is the only surviving apartment of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna (the original furniture, however, has not been preserved). Mozart lived here from 1784 to 1787; During this time, among other things, the opera was Le nozze di Figaro , which is why the house as today Figarohaus is known. The apartment has been open to the public for decades; it was reopened in early 2006 after a redesign. It is part of the Mozarthaus Vienna , which has exhibition space on several floors and shows exhibits such as the table on which Mozart is said to have composed the Magic Flute .

Beethoven's apartment in Heiligenstadt

Heiligenstadt : House in the former Herrengasse 6 (today Probusgasse 6)

Ludwig van Beethoven spent the summer of 1802 in a house in Heiligenstadt (today the 19th district). The suburb of Vienna at that time had a spa and bathing establishment; Beethoven was looking for a cure or improvement of his progressive hearing impairment here. During this stay he wrote, among other things, his 2nd symphony , but he also wrote his Heiligenstadt will - in a phase of worry and pessimism about the state of his hearing . Oral records indicate that it was the house at today's Probusgasse 6, but this is controversial as there were no conscription forms for the Vienna suburbs at the time and Beethoven's letters did not contain any evidence of this address.

Beethoven Pasqualati House

Entrance and courtyard of the Pasqualati house

The house of his patron Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati on the Mölker Bastei in Vienna's Inner City was used by Beethoven as an apartment from 1804 to 1808 and 1810 to 1814. Here he composed some of his works, including the 5th and 6th symphonies , Für Elise , the " Archduke Trio " and his only opera, Fidelio . Since Beethoven's apartment in the northern part of the fourth floor of the Pasqualati House is rented, the neighboring apartment is shown as a Beethoven site.

Haydn House

Haydn's house around 1840

Joseph Haydn acquired the house in 1793 at today's Haydngasse 19 in Mariahilf (today 6th district) and lived there until his death in 1809. Originally the house had the address Kleine Steingasse 71 (from 1795 No. 73) and was located in small settlement Obere Windmühle , which belonged to the suburb of Windmühle and was almost completely enclosed by the much larger suburb of Gumpendorf , to whose church district it belonged. There Haydn composed the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons, among others . In 1862 the Haydngasse was named after its most famous resident, the house has been a memorial since 1899 and a municipal museum since 1904. In a room dedicated to Johannes Brahms you can admire Brahms' composing desk. In 2009, on the occasion of the 200th year of Joseph Haydn's death, the permanent exhibition was redesigned and expanded, with a focus on the composer's last years.

Schubert birthplace

Franz Schubert's birthplace

Franz Schubert spent the first four and a half years of his life in this house on Nussdorfer Strasse on Himmelpfortgrund in what is now the 9th district, Alsergrund . The most important exhibit is Schubert's external “trademark”, his glasses. In addition, around 50 paintings by Adalbert Stifter , who achieved fame primarily as a writer , are exhibited in the house .

Schubert's death home

The composer spent the last two and a half months of his life in Schubert's dying apartment in Kettenbrückengasse in Wieden (4th district since 1850), which belonged to his brother Ferdinand. The exhibits include the latest musical drafts and a copy of the last letter he wrote to Franz von Schober himself .

Johann Strauss apartment

The apartment at Praterstrasse 54 in Leopoldstadt , the 2nd district, served Johann Strauss (son) in the 1860s as quarters for the winter season. Here he composed, among other things, the waltz On the beautiful blue Danube , better known as the Danube Waltz , to the sound of which the Viennese traditionally greet the New Year.

Excavation sites

All the archaeological excavations of the Wien Museum are located in the 1st district of Vienna , Inner City , and document different epochs in the history of Vienna.

Excavations at Michaelerplatz

Excavations at Michaelerplatz

In the course of archaeological investigations of Michaelerplatz from 1989 to 1991, remains of the Roman camp suburb of Canabae of the Vindobona camp were discovered. Most likely the houses of the soldiers' women and children were located here. The excavation field was made permanently accessible to the public in 1991, the design was carried out by Hans Hollein .

Virgil Chapel

The Virgil Chapel was built around 1250, but served as a crypt for a wealthy Viennese family from the 14th century. After the cemetery around St. Stephen's Cathedral was closed in 1732 and the Magdalens Chapel next to the cathedral burned down in 1781 , the Virgil Chapel was subsequently filled in and was forgotten. In 1973 it was rediscovered in the course of underground construction work (line U1) and is now around twelve meters below the surface as a museum, an integral part of the Stephansplatz underground station and also accessible via this.

Roman Museum

Ruins in the Roman Museum on Hohen Markt

The remains of houses that served as officers' quarters in the Roman legionary camp of Vindobona can be seen on the Hoher Markt . The exhibits also include ceramics, tombstones and other objects that give an insight into life in the Roman camp and the adjoining civil town around 2000 years ago. This museum branch, formerly known as the “Roman Ruins”, was expanded to become the “Roman Museum” that opened in May 2008.

Roman remains

In the basement of the fire brigade headquarters Am Hof there is a piece of a Roman camp main canal that has been preserved in its original location, which once served to lead the sewage from the southern part of the camp over the Tiefen Graben to the Ottakringer Bach. These building remains were discovered in the 1950s when the foundations were being excavated for the new construction of the Vienna fire brigade headquarters, which was destroyed by bombs towards the end of the Second World War. At a depth of almost three meters, the remains of a wall, a tower of the camp wall, part of a road running along the camp wall and a five-meter-long part of the canal below came to light.

Neidhart ballroom

The Neidhart festival hall is located in a 14th-century building on the Tuchlauben in the old town . His wall paintings are considered to be the oldest preserved non-church wall paintings in Vienna. In 1398, on behalf of the wealthy Viennese merchant Michel Menschein, the ballroom in the house was furnished with the picture cycle, which largely shows scenes from the life of the minstrel Neidhart von Reuental . The wall paintings, so-called Seccos, were discovered in 1979 during renovation work under a layer of plaster. They have been open to the public since 1982. In 2019 a new permanent exhibition was opened with insights into everyday life in medieval Vienna.

depot

For many decades, the Wien Museum used up to eight depots in Vienna to store objects that were not on display. In 2012 it was decided to set up a central depot. In 2013, more than a million properties were relocated to a rented hall with several floors and 12,000 square meters in Himberg , a municipality a few kilometers south of the city limits of Vienna. Immediately adjacent is a depot for the Kunsthistorisches Museum .

Historical details since 1959

To mark its 50th anniversary in the museum building on Karlsplatz, the Wien Museum published an overview of 50 years of collection history in autumn 2008, from which most of the following information was taken:

Wien Museum Karlsplatz (2008)
Wien Museum Karlsplatz (2013)
  • 2003–2015: Director Wolfgang Kos , renamed Wien Museum
  • 2004: Gastarbajteri exhibition . 40 years of labor migration and major exhibition in Old Vienna. The city that never was (Künstlerhaus)
  • 2006: Renovation by BWM Architects and Partners: new entrance area, additional exhibition room
  • 2007: Exhibitions in the pub and at the bottom. The discovery of misery
  • 2008: Opening of the Roman Museum on Hohen Markt
  • 2008: Exhibition Where the Wuchtel Flies
  • 2009: Reopening of the redesigned Haydn House
  • 2009–2010: Large exhibition in the Künstlerhaus: Battle for the City. politics, art and everyday life around 1930
  • 2013: Exhibition of Viennese types
  • 2015–: Directorate Matti Bunzl
  • 2015: Exhibitions:
  • 2016: Exhibitions ( location Karlsplatz ):
    • OR Schatz & Carry Hauser . In the age of extremes
    • In the Prater ! Viennese amusements since 1766
    • Drawn modernity. Rudolf Weiss, a student of Otto Wagner
    • Chapeau! A covered head social history
    • Sex in Vienna. Lust. Control. disobedience
  • 2018: exhibitions
The MUSA in Rathausstrasse (2020)
  • 2019:
    • February 3rd: Last day of regular opening before the museum is renovated or expanded
    • Exhibition in the Wien Museum MUSA
      • The red Vienna
  • 2020: Exhibitions at the Wien Museum MUSA
    • Richard Neutra. Homes for California
    • In the shadow of Bambi. Felix Salten discovers the modern

literature

  • Hundred Years of History Museum of the City of Vienna. (Catalog for the 106th special exhibition, edited by Wilhelm Deutschmann), Vienna 1987.
  • Sándor Békési, Monika Sommer : Arrested Development or Prolonged Stagnation? The Historical Museum of the City of Vienna and the First World War. In: Austrian Studies , 21 (2013), pp. 121–141.
  • Sándor Békési: The town hall as a museum and exhibition space. On the forms and functions of urban representation in Vienna 1886–1958. In: Pils, Susanne Claudine u. a. [Hrsg.]: Town halls as multifunctional spaces of representation, parties and secrecy (= research and contributions to the history of Vienna , 55), Innsbruck a. a. 2012, pp. 339-372.
  • Johann Josef Böker: Architecture of the Gothic. Inventory catalog of the world's largest collection of Gothic architectural plans (Franz Jäger's legacy) in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, with an appendix on the medieval architectural drawings in the Vienna Museum on Karlsplatz. Pustet, Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-7025-0510-5 . Review by Klaus Jan Philipp in: Journal für Kunstgeschichte Volume 10, Issue 4, 2006, pp. 314–317 Architecture and Sculpture .
  • Elke Doppler, Christian Rapp , Sándor Békési (eds.): At the pulse of the city. 2000 years Karlsplatz. (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Wien Museum). Czernin, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7076-0266-1 .
  • Franz Glück : The historical museum of the city of Vienna. Retrospect and Prospect. In: Cultural work of the city of Vienna 1945-1955. Vienna 1955, pp. 61–77 (= Wiener Schriften, Volume 1).
  • Hakan Gürses, Cornelia Kogoj, Sylvia Mattl (eds.). Gastarbajteri. 40 years of labor migration . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85476-117-1 (Wien Museum catalog for the exhibition from January 22 to April 11, 2004).
  • Wolfgang Kos , Gudrun Ratzinger (Eds.): Fifty fifty. Art in dialogue with the 50s (catalog of the 358th special exhibition of the Wien Museum Karlsplatz), Nuremberg: Verl. Für Moderne Kunst, 2009.
  • Wolfgang Kos: Active collecting! (But how?). The Wien Museum's collection strategy. In: New Museum. The Austrian museum magazine. February 2008, pp. 14-19.
  • Sylvia Mattl-Wurm: The Failure of Modernism in Vienna's Museum System. In: Herbert Posch (ed.), Politics of Presentation. Museum and exhibition in Austria 1918–1945, Vienna 1996, pp. 143–166.
  • Gerhard Murauer: "In these urgent times ..." On the World War II collection of the City of Vienna. In: Alfred Pfoser, Andreas Weigl (Ed.): In the epicenter of collapse. Vienna in the First World War. Vienna 2013, pp. 540–555.
  • Alexander Ortel: The municipal collections , in: Official Journal of the City of Vienna , 53 (1948) 102, pp. 1–2.
  • Hermann Reuther: The historical museum of the city of Vienna , in: Das neue Wien. Städtewerk, Vienna 1927, 113–130 (published by the municipality of Vienna, Volume 2).
  • Monika Sommer: City in the Museum. Vienna and the musealization in the early days , in: Wolfgang Kos / Christian Rapp (ed.): Alt-Wien. The city that never was. (Catalog for the 316th special exhibition of the Wien Museum), Vienna 2004, pp. 77–85.
  • Gerald Matt, Siegfried Mattl, Thomas Miessgang: Preliminary study for a model for a Viennese city museum. Final report. (On behalf of the Vienna Science Center), Vienna 2002.

Web links

Commons : Wien Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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